Active in science, energy, and climate diplomacy, Luca Polizzi is Manager for Strategic Planning and Program Review at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) in Saudi Arabia. He was previously EU Diplomat as Attaché for Research and Innovation in Israel for two years. Back in Brussels to Commission HQ in 2021, he was responsible for the Hydrogen and Innovation Policy in DG Research and Innovation (DG R&I), contributing to energy diplomacy at the EU and International levels. Before entering the EU Diplomatic Service, he managed the R&I portfolio for Africa, the Gulf, and the Neighbourhood in DG Research, where he was also Policy Assistant Director of industrial technologies and previously Policy Officer for Nanotechnologies and Advanced Materials. Before joining the Commission in 2016, he spent three years at KAUST managing research cooperation programs and designing new research funding mechanisms. Between 2006 and 2014, he was Senior Research and Innovation Executive at the EU Office of Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's Government Agency for Innovation, representing 18 Scottish Universities in Brussels. Lecturer and guest speaker on EU policies and science diplomacy in various institutions, including the College of Europe, University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Ben Gurion University, Universita' Cattolica of Milan, European Institute of Public Administration, University of Glasgow, Edinburgh University, and the University of St. Andrews. Visiting Professor at the University of Sassari in EU policies (2014-2015) and Professor in EU Law at the Marconi University (2004-2006). After graduating from “La Sapienza”, he earned his MA at KU Leuven and is currently PhD candidate in Science Diplomacy at the VUB.